Improvement in steam-valves



G. A. BEVANS. Steam-Valve.

WITNESS INVBNTOR: c9. M 5 a, w 64 may BY ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE CHARLES A. BEVANS, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IM PROVEMENT IN STEAM-VALVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,315, dated May 13, 1879 application filed December 21, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BEVANS, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Steam-Valve, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is an upright sectional view of the valve. Fig. 2 is a section through as 00. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention consists of a steam-valve so constructed that the old and worn seats thereof may be removed and new ones put in their places without breaking the pipe-joints, without removing the valve from its connections; and the invention also embraces a conical valve-seat, which possesses special advan- The valve-seat C, supported on the diaphragm by a horizontal flange, and held down by a cap-nut at the lower end, as and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES A. BEVANS. Witnesses:

' G. A. DOLE,

EVELYN BEECHER. 

